All Walter Scott Quotes
- Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die. Die
- Steady of heart and stout of hand. Hand
- Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er… All
- When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between. Adverse
- The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning… Brightest
- The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given grace… Ample
- Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell. Cooked
- Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life. Ambition
- The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the… Authority
- I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again. All
- In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. Guardian
- Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it. Belief
- Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won! Bonny
- Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human… Adapted
- O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood! Brown
- Art thou a friend to Roderick? Art
- Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. Given
- It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives. Buying
- Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! Folly
- But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again? Find